1960s

Get out your bell bottoms, John Lennon glasses, and flower power everything! We are having a '60s celebration in Journeyman, so come to class with your favorite hippie costume! 

Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 17-35

2. Study maps of the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Print these for your notebook page.

3. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on note cards:

• Berlin Wall
• draft
• sit-ins
• de-Stalinization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cultural Revolution
• Bay of Pigs
• Six-day war
• Woodstock
• civil disobedience
• Viet Cong
• Black Panthers
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• civil rights movement
• freedom riders
• Miranda decision
• My Lai massacre
• new frontier
• Tet Offensive
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• women's movement
• feminism
• liberalism
• hippies

4. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1960s, including: the Civil Rights Movement, construction of the Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs incident, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination, Troops sent to Vietnam, Six-day War, MLK assassinated, first man on the moon, Woodstock, and the Tet Offensive.

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

5. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events from the 1960s. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them? Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: JFK, Betty Frieden, Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, Neil Armstrong, Fidel Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Ceasar Chavez. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) 

6. Optional: Watch "Forrest Gump". Check with your parents because there are some mature topics in this movie, however, it gives a great sweeping view of the sixties in America.

Journeyman

1. Watch "Thirteen Days" (rent for $2.99) 
For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days brought to the fore such public figures as Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Acheson, Dean Rusk, and General Curtis LeMay. In addition many others -- politicians, diplomats and soldiers -- were on the front line of the showdown. In Thirteen Days, we see all of these people, -- and, above all -- President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, through the eyes of a trusted presidential aide and confidante, Kenneth P. O'Donnell.


 2. Respond to the following question after watching the film:

• Was the United States, the USSR, or Cuba more to blame for the Cuban missile crisis? What impact did the crisis have on U.S.-Soviet relations?

OR

1. Watch PBS documentary The Bomb
Learn how America developed the atomic bomb and how it changed the world.

Master
A Study in Feminism

Ok boys. This class is just as much for you as it is for the girls. It is so important that you learn the history of this movement and that you understand for yourself the positive and negative aspects that have come from it. One day you will be husbands and fathers of women, and you will need to know who God made them to be and what alternate messages the world is trying to send to them. I also believe that if you understand the role of a good woman, you will also understand how to be a good man. 
 

1. Read Steel to Gold, Motherhood and Feminism by Rachel DeMille

2. Watch this clip by Sherrie Dew on what LDS women get


3. Create a collage of images and words that you feel represents what and who a good woman should be.